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2016 Postmortem

ypsfonos

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4. Sorry your're wrong

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Reply #2)

Mon Jan 25, 2016, 09:54 PM

Jan 2016

This phrase was first used by his brother John F. Kennedy in 1963 (June 28th), during his visit to Ireland, in his address to the Irish Dail (Government): "George Bernard Shaw, speaking as an Irishman, summed up an approach to life, 'Other people, he said, see things and say why? But I dream things that never were and I say, why not?"

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There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? [View all] ypsfonos Jan 2016 OP

The change has already begun Proserpina Jan 2016 #1

It was RFK DemocratSinceBirth Jan 2016 #2

Good thing, cuz JFK made Bernie want to puke Rose Siding Jan 2016 #3

Sorry your're wrong ypsfonos Jan 2016 #4

Res ipsa loquitur DemocratSinceBirth Jan 2016 #5

This message was self-deleted by its author DemocratSinceBirth Jan 2016 #5

Thank you for getting whose quote it is correct. dflprincess Jan 2016 #7

What gave the quote such resonance is when Ted Kennedy used it in his eulogy of him./nt DemocratSinceBirth Jan 2016 #8